Glasgow Gorbals (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glasgow Gorbals
Former Burgh constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland City of Glasgow
1918–1974 (1974)
Number of members One
Replaced by Glasgow Queen's Park, Glasgow Govan[1]

Glasgow Gorbals was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Glasgow. From 1918 until 1974, it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post system.

Boundaries

1950-1955: The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Gorbals and Hutchesontown, and part of Govanhill ward.

1955-1974: The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Gorbals and Hutchesontown, and parts of Govanhill and Kingston wards.

Members of Parliament

Election Member [2] Party
1918 George Nicoll Barnes Coalition Labour
1922 George Buchanan Labour
1931 Ind. Labour Party
1939 Labour Party
1948 by-election Alice Cullen Labour
1969 by-election Frank McElhone Labour
Feb 1974 constituency abolished: see Glasgow Queen's Park

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Glasgow Gorbals[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank McElhone 10,260 69.3 -3.8
Conservative William Shearer 3,071 20.8 -2.0
SNP Tom Brady 1,089 7.4 N/A
Communist John Kay 376 2.5 -1.6
Majority 7,189 48.6 -1.6
Turnout 59.7 -2.0
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

Glasgow Gorbals by-election, 1969[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank McElhone 7,834 53.4
SNP Tom Brady 3,671 25.02 N/A
Conservative William Shearer 2,732 18.62
Communist John Kay 361 2.46
Workers (Scotland) Matthew Lygate 72 0.49
Majority 4,163 28.38
Turnout 14,670
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1966: Glasgow Gorbals[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 14,453 73.1 +1.7
Conservative W. C. Hunter 4,513 22.8 -0.2
Communist M. A. Hunter 819 4.1 -1.5
Majority 9,940 50.2 +1.8
Turnout 61.7 -2.8
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1964: Glasgow Gorbals[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 16,931 71.4 +8.1
Unionist W. C. Hunter 5,455 23.0 -7.8
Communist M. A. Hunter 1,339 5.6 -0.3
Majority 11,476 48.4 +15.8
Turnout 64.5 -3.7
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 20,731 63.3
Unionist W. C. Hunter 10,072 30.8
Communist Peter Kerrigan 1,932 5.9
Majority 10,659 32.6
Turnout 68.2
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1955: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 22,567 61.2
Unionist W. B. Thomson 11,839 32.1
Communist Peter Kerrigan 2,491 6.8
Majority 10,728 29.1
Turnout 65.2
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1951: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 25,288 61.8
Unionist J. A. Young 13,069 32.0
Communist Peter Kerrigan 2,553 6.2
Majority 12,219 29.9
Turnout 76.1
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1950: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 24,010 58.0 N/A
Unionist J. A. Young 13,013 31.5
Communist Peter Kerrigan 2,426 5.9 N/A
Anti-Partition W. McGuinness 1,920 4.6 N/A
Majority 10.997 26.6
Turnout 76.8
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

Glasgow Gorbals by-election, 1948
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 13,706 54.56 N/A
Unionist W. Roxburgh 7,181 28.59
Communist Peter Kerrigan 4,233 16.85 N/A
Majority 6525 25.98
Turnout 25120
Labour hold Swing N/A
General Election 1945: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Buchanan 21,073 80.0
Unionist Sir Ian Auld Mactaggart 5,269 20.0
Majority 15,804 60.0
Turnout 56.9
Labour gain from Ind. Labour Party Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Glasgow Gorbals [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Labour Party George Buchanan 22,860 75.02
Unionist M. Bloch 5,824 19.11
Labour Alexander Burnett 1,786 5.86
Majority 17,036 55.91
Ind. Labour Party hold Swing
General Election 1931: Glasgow Gorbals [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Labour Party George Buchanan 19,278 58.12
Unionist M. Bloch 11,264 33.96
Communist Harry McShane 2,626 7.92
Majority 8,014 24.16
Ind. Labour Party hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Glasgow Gorbals [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Buchanan 25,134 74.8
Unionist Sir Maurice Bloch 8,457 25.2
Majority 16,677 49.6
Turnout 33,591
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1924: Glasgow Gorbals [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Buchanan 19,480
Unionist Robert McLellan 10,092
General Election 1923: Glasgow Gorbals [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Buchanan 17,211
Unionist Robert McLellan 8,392 n/a
Majority
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1922: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Buchanan 16,478 54.5
National Liberal J.E. Harper 8,276 27.4 n/a
Independent Communist John Maclean 4,027 13.3
Liberal Francis John Robertson 1,456 4.8 n/a
Majority 8,202 27.1
Turnout 30,237
Labour gain from Coalition Labour Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Labour George Nicoll Barnes 14,347
Labour John Maclean 7,436
Coalition Labour gain from Labour Swing

References

  1. ↑ Statutory Instrument 1970 No. 1680 (section Two) The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1970 (Coming into force 25 November 1970)
  2. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
  3. ↑ UK General Election results: 1970
  4. ↑ 1969 - 70 By Elections
  5. ↑ UK General Election results: March 1966
  6. ↑ UK General Election results: October 1964
  7. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
  8. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
  9. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  10. ↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
  11. ↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
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